• DOI:10.1017/S0020743800057494
Corpus ID: 37465594

THE EFFECTS OF WORLD CAPITALIST ECONOMY ON URBANIZATION IN EGYPT

@inproceedings{Chaichian1988THEEO,
  title={THE EFFECTS OF WORLD CAPITALIST ECONOMY ON URBANIZATION IN EGYPT},
  author={Mohammad A. Chaichian},
  year={1988}
}

Mohammad A. Chaichian

Published 1988

Economics, Political Science

This research paper provides an historical analysis of urbanization in Egypt and its relationships to her incorporation into the world capitalist economy during the last two centuries. My major concern is to discover more about the following issues: (1) the historical reasons for the structural disjunction of the peasant population from rural areas; and (2) the dynamics of rural-urban migration and the problem of overconcentration of population in a few major urban centers. This paper is… CONTINUE READING

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